Category Archives: high resolution modeling

The UK Met Office is working with the US Government (not the National Weather Service/NOAA), NASA, and Google to increase natural disaster warning systems across the globe. Forecasts will be on the seasonal/climate area in Africa and Asia. The goal … Continue reading →

NOAA is holding a workshop on the Parametrization of Moist Processes for Next Generation Weather Models on January 27-29, 2015. The workshop is to review current research on moisture processes in the weather model algorithms from the synoptic scale down … Continue reading →

The HRRR model, High Resolution Rapid Refresh model is moving from experimental to operational status at the National Weather Service. It will incorporate Dual Pol radar data and grid points down to 3km/2mi to attempt to simulate features for thunderstorms … Continue reading →

The University Center for Atmospheric Research (UCAR) has a good press release on improvements using short term nowcasting with Dual Pol 88D weather radar data to improve stream flooding models during the 2014 STEP (Short Term Explicit Prediction) experiment. It … Continue reading →

GeoComm is currently working with St Cloud State University (St Cloud MN) on a detailed 3D model of campus that will be made available to all first responders who service the campus. St Cloud State is the first university campus … Continue reading →

There was a good story from NCAR/UCAR on using GPS signals to improve hurricane models. There are six COSMIC satellites orbiting now and 12 more to be launched in the next four years. It is based on GPS radio signals … Continue reading →

Only about 30% of the United States has been scanned by aerial LiDAR systems according to a article from Deep Dive Intelligence. The current pace is about 1-2% per year for new data. It is on a pace that it … Continue reading →